Reviews of Silva Screen’s new Francis Lai: The Essential Collection, plus Lai’s original A Man and a Woman album, in addition to a review of the film that began the Lai-Lelouch collaboration (via Warner Home Video), and its conceptually intriguing sequel, A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later (now out via Warner Archives)…
Return to: Home / Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews / M . Film: Very Good/ DVD Transfer: Excellent / DVD Extras: n/a Label: Warner Home Video (Italy)/ Region: 2 (PAL) / Released: May 28, 2003 Genre: Drama / Romance Synopsis: Anne and Lean-Louis attempt to reconnect after their romance from 1966 fizzled out. Special Features: n/a . . […]
Return to: Home / Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews / M . Film: Excellent/ DVD Transfer: Excellent/ DVD Extras: Very Good Label: Warner Home Video/ Region: 1 (NTSC) / Released: March 23, 2003 Genre: Drama / Romance / French New Wave Synopsis: Romance increases as a man and a woman meet on weekends to pick up their children […]
Return to: Home / Soundtrack Reviews Rating: Very Good Label: Silva Screen/ Released: February 7, 2011 Tracks & Album Length: 20 tracks / (69:05) . Special Notes: 8-page colour booklet with liner notes by Michael Beek. . Composer: Francis Lai . . Review: This 2010 recording (originally produced by Japan’s King Records) features Francis Lai conducting orchestral […]
Return to: Home / Soundtrack Reviews / M . Rating: Very Good Label: Disc AZ/ Released: 1966 Tracks & Album Length: 9 tracks / (29:10) . Special Notes: n/a. . Composer: Francis Lai . . Review: To call Francis Lai’s 1966 feature film debut meteoric is an understatement, given his main theme for the Oscar-wining film became […]
Tales of Giant Bugs on VHS, a Podcast Interview, and Tape Swapping
In addition to a review of the 3D short film ROACH (2022) on VHS, I’ve an interview with its maker, SCHNUDLBUG, and links to an essay I wrote for the latest issue of BRANDON LIM’s zine, FILM FVCKERS, titled “THE GREAT TAPE SWAP”
Now Where Were We? Right. Let’s go back to LAST NIGHT (1998)
Don McKellar’s LAST NIGHT (1998) is the first review after a long pause in activities at KQEK.com
Gothic Steele: An Angel for Satan (1966)
Review of AN ANGEL FOR SATAN / UN ANGELO PER SATANA (1966), Barbara Steele’s last Italian Gothic, on Blu-ray from Severin Films
Tales of Giant Bugs on VHS, a Podcast Interview, and Tape Swapping
In addition to a review of the 3D short film ROACH (2022) on VHS, I’ve an interview with its maker, SCHNUDLBUG, and links to an essay I wrote for the latest issue of BRANDON LIM’s zine, FILM FVCKERS, titled “THE GREAT TAPE SWAP”
ArtScopeTO 10: Interview with Abstract Painter Donna Wise
For my occasional podcast series ArtScope TO, Abstract Painter Donna Wise discusses her unique techniques, and working during the 2020-2021 pandemic.
Podcast: Jason Pichonsky on Restoring Julian Roffman’s THE BLOODY BROOD (1959) + PHOBIA (1980)
Alongside a podcast with CanCon film historian Jason Pichonsky are revised reviews of Julian Roffman’s THE BLOODY BROOD (1959) + John Huston’s PHOBIA (1980), both from KINO Lorber / Unobstructed View.
The core story involves a pilot who runs into an available, functional spacecraft, and boots up into the planet’s now-toxic atmosphere, relying on the craft’s occasionally bristling AI navigation system to find a strata safe from dense clouds, and a roving giant bug determined to make a meal of the tiny craft and its pilot.
Assorted characters collide and interact in the lead-up to Earth’s demise at precisely midnight.
BR: Angel for Satan, An / Un angelo per Satana (1966)
Had Barbara Steele remained in Europe – especially Italy – during the early 1970s, she may well have appeared in giallo thrillers…
BR: Cannibal Man / La semana del asesino / Apartment on the 13th Floor, The (1972)
Cannibal Man has a palpable crime-drama feel – the events unfold after daily title cards – and one can sense Hitchcockian sensibilities…
BR: No One Heard the Scream / Nadie oyó gritar (1973)
After the grisly thriller Cannibal Man (1972), Spanish auteur Eloy de la Iglesia opted for a far less graphic thriller which is part giallo…
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